London Rising Tide

On 24th January London Rising Tide once again helped their friends at Rhythms of Resistance Samba band and others keep Shell aware that the campaign to prevent the damaging high pressure gas pipeline and refinery near Rossport in County Mayo, Ireland is still rolling.

Rossport Solidarity Rolling Shell Blockade
On 24th January London Rising Tide once again helped their friends at Rhythms of Resistance Samba Band and others keep Shell aware that the campaign to prevent the

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Shell is the third largest oil company in the world.
It is also the new sponsor of the Natural History Museum’s
Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition.

Save the trees!

The event at the BoysHall will be a night in support of and to raise money for the coalition of local people and climate action groups, in particular for the action against building gas pipes through the Black Mountains in Wales. Please see Indymedia for more details.

Shell is the third largest oil company in the world. It is also the
new sponsor of the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of
the Year Competition. Contradiction, or what?

A: ‘A CHOICE OF FUTURES’
Some bright spark had the vision and organisation to print out this message, one letter per page, laminate each one (OK, a bit fossil fuel-friendly) and pin them to the gate alongside the entrance to our site. It provided a perfect backdrop to loads of press pictures, as well as lifting the spirits of loads of people arriving to participate.

'We are now able to announce the location of the Camp for Climate Action.

It will take place on Barlow Common, about 3 miles south east of Selby,
and about 2 miles north west of the Drax perimeter fence. Directions and

July 15th was an 'International Day of Direct Action for Climate Justice, against Climate Change and the G8' called in part by Rising Tide North America. London Rising Tide (LRT) decided to take action the day before - a weekday, as well as being a more general day of action against the G8 and in solidarity with those on the streets of St. Petersburg and across Russia.

London Rising Tide brought to life the image used to publicise its Art Not Oil 2006 exhibition outside the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) on the night of the ceremony for the BP Portrait Award. The Nick Turner image is a petroleum-based version of the iconic Vietnam photograph depicting a brutal assassination, this time with a nozzle replacing the gun, and with the action taking place in front of a BP logo. It took on three dimensions outside the gallery as a simple, powerful way to convey the murderous impact of BP and the entire oil industry, an impact that is brilliantly obscured by cultural sponsorship.

(Image: 'Estuary Fish' by Piers Browne)

* for creativity, climate justice and an end to oil industry sponsorship of the arts *

Art Not Oil at The Foundry , 84-86 Great Eastern St, London EC2A 3JL, (Old Street tube)